Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy

Author/Contributor(s):	Young, Kay
Publisher:	Ohio State University Press
Date:	02/07/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Ordinary Pleasures offers a new theory of narrative in its uncovering of how conversations and comic exchanges between lovers in stories create an intimacy and happiness of the everyday. Drawing on a diverse body of theory (from sociolinguistics to philosophy to literary criticism) and reading an unexpectedly eclectic group of texts (works by Shakespeare and Tolstoy appear beside Casablanca and I Love Lucy), Kay Young explores how narrative couples play together, struggle together, and return to one another to experience what it means to be in a relationship over time.